Pakistan on Friday welcomed the invitation extended by the government of India to the APHC chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and other Kashmiri leaders for talks. "The Government of Pakistan hopes that the meeting would strengthen the ongoing Pakistan-India peace process," a foreign office spokesman said while commenting on the invitation.
He said Pakistan has always been of the view that the Kashmiri leadership should be associated with the dialogue process between Pakistan and India for final settlement of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute. The Hurriyat leadership's meeting with the Indian Prime Minister, he added, would be continuation of the process initiated by the visit of Kashmiri leaders to Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan, in June this year.